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1985 – Cast Away (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1995 – 1999 Memphis, Tennessee > Uninhabited Island in the South Pacific

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Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. (wiki)

Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.

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1892 – Solaris (2002)

spacetime coordinates: ?? / The film is set almost entirely on a space station orbiting the Ocean planet Solaris, adding flashbacks to the previous experiences of its main characters on Earth.

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Solaris is a 2002 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau, and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. It is based on the 1961 science fiction novel of the same name by Polish writer Stanisław Lem.

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Soderbergh “said that he didn’t intend Solaris to be a remake of Tarkovsky’s film but rather a new version of Stanislaw Lem’s novel”. (wiki)

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‘We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything – – solitude, hardship, exhaustion, death. We’re proud of outselves. But when you think about it, our enthusiasm’s a sham. We don’t want other worlds; we want mirrors.’

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1841 – Voyagers (2021)

timespace coordinates: ~2080’s on a generation ship in search of a new home

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Voyagers is a 2021 American science fiction film written and directed by Neil Burger. The film stars Tye SheridanLily-Rose DeppFionn Whitehead and Colin Farrell. The film was described as being “Lord of the Flies in space”. (wiki)

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1816 – The World to Come (2020)

timespace coordinates: 1856 in Schoharie County – isolated farms on the American East Coast frontier

The World to Come is a 2020 drama film directed by Mona Fastvold, from a screenplay by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, based upon Shepard’s story of the same name. It stars Katherine WaterstonVanessa KirbyChristopher Abbott and Casey Affleck, and follows two neighboring couples battling hardship and isolation in mid-19th century America. (wiki)

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1790 – Sweet Home Seuwiteu Hom 스위트 홈 (webtoon 2017-2020)

Sweet Home webtoon thriller by Carnby Kim and Youngchan Hwang

(wiki) SH is a South Koreanwebtoon written by Kim Carnby and illustrated by Hwang Young-chan. First published in Naver Webtoon, the webtoon ran for a total of 140 chapters plus one prologue from October 12, 2017 to July 2, 2020. It centers on a suicidal high school boy who, along with a group of fellow apartment residents, tries to survive a “monsterization” apocalypse (goemulhwa) where people turn into monsters that reflect their innermost, most desperate desires.

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1768 – Cosmic Station (director: Bettina Timm, documentary 2008)

This documentary somehow is a constant reminder as to the drive behind cozzzmonautica https://cozzzmonautica.wordpress.com/ series of nocturnal trips celebrating exactly what this documentarytries in part to convey

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Viktor Ambartsumian Armenian-Soviet scientist founder of the Byurakan Observatory

Synopsis Mount Aragaz is the highest mountain in Armenia. At an altitude of 3500 m one can find the remnants of a prestige project of the Soviet Union: the weather beaten buildings of Aragats Cosmic Ray Division. Here, more than a hundred men used to search for messengers from distant galaxies – particles, created by cosmic radiation on its way to earth in billions of tiny explosions. Most of the researchers left, when the financial support of the institution collapsed with the Soviet Union. However, despite the lack of funding a small group of Armenian scientists endures on the top of Mount Aragaz. Like astronauts in a spaceship they continue their research, hoping for a sensation: The discovery of unknown galaxies.

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The Universe, the Nothingness, the Solitude – three scientists are holding out at what was once the Soviet Union’s greatest cosmic research station. Are they closer to the secret of Creation – here, on top of Armenia’s highest mountain? In their work they rather look like Sisyphus’ brothers, and it is not by accident that they start searching for the meaning of their existence, of God’s existence. Man asks, and the World does not reply. Or does it?

DURATION: 30 min
FORMAT: 35 mm / Farbe / 1:1,85 / DolbySR
LANGUAGE: armenian / german and english subtitles (optional)
PRODUCTION: Pelle Film in Ko-Produktion mit der HFF München und dem Bayerischen Rundfunk

Armenia’s Cosmic-Ray Catchers 2020 article

‘We’re Above Civilization’: life in a cosmic-ray station photo essay

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